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Ask HN: Why DevOps is still complicated in 2021?
Please point to my dark spot, because I really want to understand something.

Aren't like ~90% of all web infra deployment usecases eventually come down to just "run N instances of my M apps on these L nodes, and make X of them available for incoming traffic (+ optionally create me few overlay networks inside cluster)"?

With lower level details resolved on per container/app level.

Why then k8s and all those tools make even simplest cases look so complicated?

Why then tools following "simplify things" ideology (like Swarm) are barely surviving in the shadow of monsters like k8s and alike?

Why aren't there widely popular tools that compete for simplicity with heroku?

Do I miss some big point somewhere or people just really love to play with complicated solutions of "not so complicated" problems?
The other car companies have been researching and investing in EVs, emerging battery chemistries, and autonomous driving for over a decade. At their scale, they can't exactly build a business on 500k vehicles per year. That doesn't mean they aren't poised for market entry as the infrastructure matures and demand grows.
Stocks are ONLY worth what people will pay for it. People pay for TSLA because they want TSLA. They don't want Ford or GM because those companies are failing to create demand and failing to generate products people want to invest in.

Institutional investors bet against TSLA and TSLA retail stock holders kicked them back.
That’s a great question, can they unilaterally shutdown trading?
Aren't document tabs, eg browser tabs, an app-confined version of multiple desktops. The idea behind their are virtual screens of content you can switch between.

Every KDE I've installed (Slackware, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Fedora), to my recollection defaulted to multiple desktops.

I'm so happy Win10 has virtual desktops as in moving from Linux to MS Windows - mandated by my workplace - that was a massive pain point.
Much ink has been spilt on both these disasters, a lot of it completely dishonest. Regardless of government actions, K shaped recoveries appear to be fairly typical for this society and this era; one should expect that the upper classes will recover quicker and better than the lower classes. Cheering on financial collapse in order to hurt the rich is a great example of cutting off your nose to spite your face; most of the pain will be felt the strongest and longest by those you are nominally rooting for.
If you short more stock than exists, eventually you need to find it. Prime brokers will allow you to naked short but you have to locate shares or buy back in pretty quickly.
I get this knee jerk reaction but there is something to be said about the risk analysis, sophistication, etc of said hedge funds. They’re not gambling in the same sense, but sure in some sense they are. Even having an entry level “risk model” is more sophistication than most home traders.

You can’t just dismiss all that as nothing.
Well exactly, if you're holding a single share and you lose $200 dollars in the end, obviously it's not the end of the world.
I would think (hope? (pray????)) that if posts straight up encouraging stock pumping became any kind of common here, that they would get flagged into the ground.
they could always deal with the lenders, which don't gain anything if their borrowers go bankrupt and they won't even get back their pennystock. And I think these lenders already deal with them quite a bit. And obviously there's still a lot of shares with WSB and I don't see how the current situation prevents offering shares for the rocket-like USD1k.
My question still stands. If webkit is a bird and gecko is a reptile, then why are there (relatively) so few reptile browsers? Is it easier to embed engines from the webkit family, or are they popular because chrome and safari are popular?
It's both. PyQt are python-bindings to the Qt-code in C++. Python acts here mainly as the clue-language to connect and control the parts in C++, and other parts like this rust-based adblocker. It's a funny melting-pot...
I think the later investors were coming in because they saw the craze on the news, Facebook, Twitter, etc and wanted to get rich quick. I have a few friends who invested yesterday.
Shorts have delivery dates.
A stock actually has a calculable estimate of value, you know. It's the sum of future cash flows. Gamestop has been losing money for years and their outlook as a brick and mortar retailer for items that are now sold online is poor. The short sellers are correct. The business of Gamestop is bad and it's equity will be worth nothing. A short squeeze isn't going to change that in the long term.
In theory, it can lessen volatility since traders can bet against overvalued companies in the same way they can invest in undervalued companies. In practice, I'm not so sure if this is really how short selling works, since "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". I do think a world without any short selling would have much more frenzied boom / bust cycles though.
Previously respected Robinhood and thought of them as a possible future employer. All that changed in a single day.
Why is RH in a tough position? They're a market maker, not a market controller. This should just be a reminder to everyone that if you're getting commission free trades, you're not the customer and your interests come after the real customers.
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Care to explain further what your post means?
Yeah, it's very odd because of how transparent the process is.

Step 1: Buy the stock with 140% short interest. -> Price goes up.

Step 2: Shorts cover (This is the "Sell" phase for retail investors). -> Price goes up.

Step 3: Shorts are finished covering (This is the "you missed it" phase for retail investors). -> Price tanks back to $15.

I personally think we're either at the end of step 1 or the beginning of step 2, because we haven't seen the volume necessary for step 3 to be possible, unless you believe without evidence that all of the shorts covered outside of the exchanges. Which would be a claim I'm not comfortable making without evidence.
If you don't let the masses buy stocks, the rich will have nobody to rob.
There isn't any relation other than the word being used. It's not something I ever complained about because I understood that it wasn't offensive in any way and is, like I said, just the response I have to hearing that word.
Except that Tesla is doing new things at a faster clip than any of those have done in decades.
Yeah, definitely possible Europeans don’t understand the extent of the dealership problem in the US.

It’d be a longer comment, but there are really bad incentives and the dealership owners have a lot of local political power. There are a lot of bad laws they’ve put in place to help themselves.

In the end they harm legacy car manufacturers by blocking EV adoption and hurting the brand at the customer interaction level.
GitHub is an interesting example, because if I push code to GitHub, I still have my local source, and being an open protocol I can easily push it elsewhere as well.
For TNG-style holodecks, I think the future is smart-dust drones and beamed power.
We will be reading "I lost all my savings" posts in a few days on reddit. It is for sure GME will hit 30, and those bought it at high will be sharing their real life pain instead of memes.
Yes, this is a very real risk!

Hence the advice "charge more". Never try to compete on price, it's a race to the bottom that commodifies your work, and you're competing against people able and willing to work for a pittance. Be strategic, be viewed as strategic, and price accordingly. Also, consider a hybrid with a fixed-price base (esp. w an initial "discovery" phase, priced on its own), and explicit provision for time and materials overages. Mostly, figure out what works for you, and do everything in your power to deliver value for your clients.

I say all this having used a few different models over the years but also presently engaged in a long-term (well-paying) hourly contract that's honestly been a welcome break from the sales/marketing/bizdev aspects of consulting.
What if you're not a user and these trade restrictions affected your trades outside of the RH platform?

It's illegal to dump products on a market (physical products) below price... yet some a-hole can force their plaform into "sell-only" mode and it's all cool.
> Profanity ... motivates people

Yeah, that's the problem. Too many people swayed by cheap laughs and the thrill of anger. Thus the failed insurrection earlier this year. It's hard to predict what'll be fun this week.

> Not everyone has the time to attend your 1 hour TED talk.

I guess we should package up the science into more concise bits. How about 5 minutes instead of 1 hour?
Which can be viewed as market manipulation. I'm not in US either but it looks pretty dodgy on their part. A key message of all these new trading platforms is that your capital is at risk. Their users know this, so why are they restricting trades?
you might enjoy reading n-gate - a weekly satirical review of hacker news. They'll surely have a nice post about GME, AMC and others.

I strongly predict it will end with:

"And no technology was discussed"
Sorry for ignorant question here not acquainted to stock market mechanisms, but: why the time imposition of tomorrow? Who dictates that storters have to return shares and when?

Frankly I thought with puts you state time limits, and with shorts you decide for yourself when you’ll have to give shares back. If that is not so, then I guess I finally understand why everyone says shorts are super risky.
Shorts don't expire, but the short sellers can call in on that short and there's also interest at exceptionally high rates.
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That is a heck of a decimal point error on my part. Thanks for the correction.
There seems to be a good bit of misinformation (or really just misunderstanding) where people have said that brokers are not allowing trades. While Robinhood really isn't allowing trades, many other brokers are just not letting you borrow money to make them. Interactive Brokers fits this bucket.
Robinhood is a private company, and are allowed to decide what types of people they want to let trade on their platform.
The people can/have unwound their stock.. its the institutional groups who had to buy to cover that can't afford to sell.
I have the '17 MBP (because I wanted something smaller, I was traveling a lot and it replaced a 15" 2012 MBP). It's been perfectly usable, though I did have to take Apple up on their keyboard repair service because they did screw that up. The rest of the system has been entirely fine, and since the keyboard repair there have been no issues. As I recall the keyboard issue applied to the 2016-2018 laptops. If my only complaint is, "the 's' key got stuck and they had to replace the whole keyboard for free, which took 24 hours at a local repair site", then I'm not too worried about it. It's annoying, but compared to literally every HP or Dell laptop I've owned, it's a far better situation. Though I hear some people had even worse experiences than my stuck 's' key.
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Yet somehow they've been outwitted by a bunch of Redittors. Maybe you're giving them to much credit.
I cant wait for basic income, because I cant wait to quit my job and focus on my ideas.
It's a Calvinball market.
Panel gaps and other aspects of build quality don't matter in a world where Tesla competes on power train rather than fit and finish.

They matter much more when consumers choose between different EVs from competing marques.
I can't speak to brain wiring, but we do know geniuses almost always share a number of distinctive behaviors: a capability for intense focus, persistence, passion for solving (or understanding) a problem, and the ability to learn efficiently and deeply.

An inclination to think and work independently seems essential too. A disinterest in the opinion of others, a disinterest in pleasing others, especially those who don't share their perspective or priorities -- these are common traits.

Excellent memory and the mastery (and advancement) of skills in the domain seem to be essential too. Probably that's where the 10,000 hours of practice comes in. And learning from exploring possibilities and testing whether each new idea or method does or does not add value, that's typical too.

I think the brain wiring that enables these behaviors is what you seek. But I doubt we understand the brain well enough to suss out which wires enable which essential behavior.
Not being very familiar with stock trading regulations, I'm a little surprised it's legal for them to do this. Stopping all trading of a stock due to volatility, yes, but to permit selling while forbidding buying appears calculated to drive the price down, which seems like the sort of market manipulation that would be banned.
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After receiving massive subsidies in California, Tesla thanked them by moving it operation to Austin Texas to avoid taxes!
Do consider pricing on the peak number of simultaneous streams (like Pusher.com does)
Yea, I'm doing well enough in my career to have some disposable income now, and was thinking maybe I should outsource to some freelancers next time I get a new software idea, and just play project manager / salesman.

However, the engineer in me would hate to not be building the thing myself.
How sure are we that this is really being driven by "amateurs" and not by scammers running a pump and dump scheme under cover of a grassroots phenomenon?
My impression was that achieving best execution without an intermediary was actually extremely difficult and not something most retail brokerages attempted to integrate. Is this not the case?
My point is that it's not clear to me how the mechanism of short-selling itself implies market manipulation.

Point taken on how subletting is not selling.
Disgusting level of manipulation. If you can only close positions the only people who can buy are short sellers closing their positions.
Corporate sponsorship of open source is entirely dependent on top talent caring about open source and thus being more willing to tolerate working for EvilMegacorp if major pieces of the infrastructure they work on are open.

When top talent just accepts the big money contract regardless, corporations see little incentive to sponsor open source. Software development is the only industry that has large portions of infrastructure free and open for anyone to use, and this is due to inheriting the values of key founders of the industry a generation or so ago.

It's up to us to carry that torch, or we will become like every other industry.
These clowns shorted 170% of float. If that's not pure gambling teetering on market manipulation, I don't know what is.
What am I running inside my bash? (2014)
Who are you to tell the rest of the world that gamestop is overpriced?

How sure are you of that? Have you shorted gamespot yet?
Definitely the most pompous.
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That's the case for rent restrictions. It's actually worse - rent control decreases housing mobility (nobody wants to give up a rent-controlled apartment, even if it no longer meets their needs) and disincentivizes development, so the prevailing market rate for non-rent-controlled apartments goes up.

But eliminating zoning restrictions and building more housing actually does work. Then when you move, you have your pick of many apartments to choose from, and nobody has pricing power to charge more.
Because they publicly stated it, as far as we know the only interest in sharing such information is to point precisely that they want people to believe they are out.

So, as far as we know, they haven't closed yet.
> if it's your money, I don't see how it's risky for RH.

FINRA arbitration, and the FINRA complaint process, is highly sympathetic to retail clients. When these clients lose money on GME et al, there will almost certainly be a class-action lawsuit for some fraction of their collective losses. And Robinhood's lawyers will almost certainly recommend they settle. That is the risk, beyond margin lending and options settlement, they are seeking to mitigate.

(Also, when that money is lost, there is a decent chance Robinhood will be fined by half the regulators on this planet for inducing people to overtrade through its gameified interface or something like that.)
People should be reminded that PG is a VC investor and so he wants the most people as possible to create companies
> For the first 6 months you're paying a sr. engineers salary to get jr. engineer productivity.

Then you are doing something wrong or have a watered down notion of "senior engineer" (as in "junior engineer" that spent X years on the job, as opposed to someone who is actually progressing well through his career in that time). Senior engineers should IMMEDIATELY outperform junior engineers. Knowledge of the system is largely unnecessary. What senior engineers bring to the table are completely different skills than junior engineers. You can have 100 junior engineers and they will still not be able to figure out the things a good senior engineer will do for you.

Probably you are not utilizing them correctly or giving them the right problems to solve.
Yes, or no, or meaningless question, depending on how you look at it.

I'm in embedded systems, not web programming or internet services or enterprise software. We're not "on call", ever. We don't carry pagers. On the other hand, when there's an issue, I'm available. I once got called in at 9 PM because we found a critical bug two days before we were shipping. That's happened once in eleven years, though. I accept that as part of the job as long as it's rare.

So: Is that "on call". In my mind, no, but you might interpret it differently.
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I am with you historically, but people seem to be taking this way more seriously than previous similar shenanigans, so I'm re-evaluating my prior dismissals.
Just out of curiosity, since it's the other end of the diet extremism: Have you tried an all complex carbs (so no sugar, no broken free carbs), low fat diet?

Are you concerned about other health parameters with your low carb diet? Like high IGF-1 or blood vessel and digestive health?
Examining the pull request is work, as is integrating it into the software and maintaining it in the future. The parent wants the project to do that so that s/he does not have to fork it him/herself. In other words, the parent wants someone else to do work, for free.

Free Software is about the freedom of the user - freedom to distribute, freedom to study, freedom to use, freedom to modify. Somehow people have managed to pervert this so that it not only means "free as in free beer so that I can use it" but even "free beer so that OTHER PEOPLE can do work that I want done, for free." There is absolutely no entitlement to this.
The endgame was that the hedge funds who overshorted this stock would eventually have to pay massive prices to close out their positions. Retail brokerages coordinated this morning to turn off buy orders in order to bail out the hedge funds.
What are y’all moving to/how do you transfer your positions?
I remember, a few years back, that Musk made news because he shut down someone asking questions in a public earnings report. The press was giving him a lot of flack about it. Then I kept reading, and found out the person who was trying to ask those questions represented a firm(s) that had large short positions on the stock, and was trying to cause the stock to dip. Musk knew what was going on, and headed it off. Seemed like he made a good call, but then the press made THAT the story instead.
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Trading revenue. As in “Goldman reported trading revenue of $X”
> If their customers - the firms that pay them, not app users - see the RH platform as a threat to their business

This point has been made repeatedly elsewhere but it bears repeating. Market makers are getting rich off this trading. Robinhood's customers are not hurting from this.
Just know when to exit.
I am under the impression that Islam technically bans loans. So one would have to do an investment instead of a loan with interest. Do you know if I have this right?
I remain amazed at the moral relativism going on here. GME was manipulated into an unnatural pump, likely criminally IMHO, though we'll see. If "the Prince" had made exactly the same trades that WSB folks did and produced the same result, then we'd be (rightly) screaming for blood.

This is just not OK. It's not. It's not OK when Melvin does it and it's not OK when Reddit does it.
Yes. When the dust settles there are still 70M almost worthless original shares that will be held by someone.

But in the meantime, there are 70M short shares that need to be rebought from the 140M original+loaned shares. The idea is that forcing closing out the short position will allow you to sell some at sky high prices, hopefully enough to cover the loss from the rest of the shares that must be inevitably bagheld.

100% of float or 100% of outstanding are not super significant inflection points, just very large ratios.
Anyone have a short list of registrars who support Yubikey (or competitors)?
...and yet cigarettes are still legal.
What are some good alternatives that don't do this?
I've heard a great deal about Bill Gates in my lifetime, but it wasn't until I read Paul Allen's 2011 autobiography that I learned that Bill's mother (a director at a bank) introduced him to IBM chairman John Opel in 1980. They both sat on the board for United Way[0].

It really struck me how these kinds of connections are less of a twist of fate, and more about environment and proximity. Even now it feels remarkable that someone with Gates' intellect and access to rich district school computers (in the '70s) benefited so massively from being born into a connected family.

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No. You aren't misunderstanding anything. That's exactly what happened.

The "problem" here, is that the little guys noticed. Michael Burry and some unknown YouTuber saw this over a year ago and started buying GameStop, and making a case for people to buy GameStop.

This is very easy to understand. The wrong people are losing money. And that can't be allowed. That's all you need to know for this to make sense.
Or to put it another way, there is a difference between being a skilled poker player and sitting down at table in hopes of winning fairly versus doing what the MIT Blackjack Team did.

That isn't to say that traditional Wall Street people haven't done anything wrong in the past or are in the right in any way here. It is simply pointing out there is a big spectrum in "its all gambling" and this activity seems like it is closer to the MIT Blackjack side.
They don't have to cover shorts tomorrow, but there are ITM calls that will be expiring. The idea behind the shorts is to keep the price high until these funds have no choice but to cover.
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If the contributing.md says no PR’s are welcome and there is a pull request template which just says in big letters “PLEASE DON’T!” I doubt many people would get confused.

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Which models of the Kindle can be jailbroken?
That didn't work for Torvalds.
But trading Tesla is OK? Oh wait that's a darling of WS, so it's OK. /s
I would personally err on the side of adhering to terms that a company asks. But although IANAL, it does seem likely that since the scraping is for the public good that even if this did go to court (unlikely), that the court would not rule in favor of Walgreens.